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Sender: Chiari, Joseph
Recipient: Read, Herbert
Letters: 2
Date(s): 22 March 1961; 5 April 1961
Location: BC Read D79
Note: Chiari sends Read his book 'Realism and Imagination' and an additional chapter for his comment. He mentions "our mutual friend Tom Eliot", and his (Chiari's) verse play 'Mary Stuart'.
Sender: Dobree, Bonamy
Recipient: Read, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Mar 1965
Location: BC MS 20c Herbert Read, box 7 (A-B)
Note: Re: advising Read against accepting Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature, as he had been once advised by T.S. Eliot. Filed under 'B' with Joseph Bard's letters on the same subject.
Sender: Read, Herbert
Recipient: Bellani, Claudia Fossati
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Dec 1965
Location: BC MS 20c Herbert Read, box 7 (A-B)
Note: carbon copy at the back of Bellani's letter. Read writes that his poetic activity has not been intermittent due to pressure of other activities , but due to deliberate intention no to conceive poetry as a profession. He mentions Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wordsworth, Mallarme, Blake, Hopkins, and also Leopardi, as his influences. He recognises a recent essay in a book "A Vision of Reality" by Frederick Grubb as perceptive of his personal thought.
Sender: Knight, G Wilson
Recipient: Read, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1950
Location: BC Read D88
Note: Knight talks about his book 'Christ and Nietzsche' which he has sent Read, mentions a silly slip he made, and hopes to hear Read's opinion on it. He found Read's article on Wordsworth in The Listener "a beautifully balanced account", and wishes Read best wishes for the play he's working on ['The Parliament of Women' ?, published in 1960]. With a delivery note of Knight's book, and a press-cutting about T.S. Eliot's 'The Cocktail Party'.